Music Contest from Hungary (7)

The idea of Nightwish was „born” in 1996’s July Finland, when three friends, Toumas Holopainen, Tarja Turunen and Erno Vuorinen (Emppu) when they were sitting around a campfire. A couple of weeks training Jukka Nevalainen who plays in drums joined to the band. In 1997’s April they went to studio and they recorded their first album – Angels Fall First with eleven songs.
After that they go to a tuor around the country and in 1998 they made their first video Carpenter.
One year later in 1998 they released a new album – Oceanborn. Everybody was surprised by the success of this album. It was on the top of the official Finnish album chart for weeks.
Sleeping Sun was written for the German eclipse in 1999 and they released with Walking In The Air, Angels Fall First and Swanheart.
They went again to studio in 2000 and then they made Wishmaster and the took qualification on the Eurovisio Song Contest with Sleepwalker. The new album, Wishmaster, was released in May and the Wishmaster Tour started from Kitee, the home town of the band. After the show, the band received gold discs for the album Oceanborn and the singles Sacrament of Wilderness, Walking in the Air and Sleeping Sun.
In March 2001 Nightwish entered the studio again to record their version of Gary Moore's classic Over The Hills And Far Away, with 2 new songs.
Century Child came out in May 2002 and made a sales record, selling gold in Finland within 2 hours! Within two weeks it sold platinum (30,000 copies) and continued selling rapidly.
Their fifth album Once was the most successful of their all albums with the single Nemo and Wish I Had An Angel. The second single, Wish I Had An Angel, was released in Autumn 2004. The song's video was directed by Uwe Boll, director of the movie "Alone In The Dark", in which the song was also played. The second single was again a great success and boosted the sales of the Once album.
In 2005 they went to a tour wich called End Of An Era. The final concert was in Hartwall Arena, Finland. After this concert, Toumas, Emppu, Jukka and Marco fired Tarja Turunen and her manager Marcelo Cabuli.
The auditions for the position as new lead singer ended in mid-January of 2007. On 24 th May they introduced their new singer Anette Olzon and new album Dark Passion Play was released in late September and had a very successful start all across the world. It was awarded double platinum in Finland after just two days and received four more gold awards so far.

Here is a link for their single Cadence Of Her Last Breath from the album Dark Passion Play. Enjoy it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0TIqDIpmU

And lyrics are here:
Cadence Of Her Last Breath

Running for her life
The dark rain from her eyes still falls
Breathtaking butterfly
Chose a dark day to live

Save one breath for me

A Loner longing for
The cadence of her last breath

Why do I miss someone
I never met, with bated breath I lay
Seawinds brought her to me
A butterfly, mere one-day miracle of life
And all the poetry in the world
Finally makes sense to me

Save one death for me

A Loner longing for
The cadence of her last breath

Put to rest all that's not life
Drink for beauty and fill my blank page

Sometimes a dream turns into a dream

A Loner longing for
The cadence of her last breath